Mexico will bring Google to justice if it continues to use the Appellation Golfe d’Amérique on its cards

A semantic war. The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, threatened, on Monday, February 17, to prosecute Google in court if the American company continues to use on its cards the Appellation Golfe of America.

Shortly after his inauguration, Donald Trump signed a decree at the end of January, ordering the name change in the Gulf of Mexico, a sea located southeast of the United States. Google conforms to this request and said that users of its Google Maps service will see the name Golfe of America in the United States, while Mexicans will see Gulf of Mexico. Users of the rest of the world will see the two names.

The Mexican leader made public a letter from her government, dated February 11 and addressed to Google, in which it is underlined that Donald Trump’s decree renames in the American Gulf that the American part, to the north, and not that of Mexico and Cuba, to the south. Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramon de la Fuente, underlines that“Under no circumstances does Mexico accept that a geographic area is renowned which includes part of its national territory and which is under its jurisdiction”.